Consultancy Contracts

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by the Metropolitan police in 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.

I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the following contracts were awarded in 1987:

Firm	Subject of Assignment
PActel	Feasibility Study¹
Geoff Ford	Work Information Management System Consultancy¹
Hoskyns	Database Consultancy¹
Digitus	Source Programs Advice on Manpower planning system²
The Instruction Set	UNIX²
Safe Computing	Implementing Police Payroll—setting up software
Time Manager International	Management Training for staff
Logica	Capacity Planning
McDonnell Douglas	Statistics systems—Hist. File Cleardown
Chess Valley	Maintaining data input system for Crime statistics
Carnell	PJCS Consultancy for Payrolls
ICL	Setting up Personnel 20 package
ICL	Consultancy for New Traffic Tickets System
Tom Scharff	In-line mailing-advice on whether cost effective to restore faulty equipment
Gerard Systems	ARTEMIS consultancy
S.I.A.	Rostering consultancy for Territorial Operations System
Hoskyns	Spool increase consultancy
Coopers and Lybrand	Computer management consultancy for Chief Engineer's Department
PActel; Admiral Computer Services; Marshall Computing Services	Miscellaneous computer consultancies for Chief Engineer's Department
PActel	Project Manager for Crime Report Information System
Hoskyns	Various levels of project staff for new Traffice Tickets System
Eagling; K.P.G.	Contract Operations for old Traffic Tickets System
Prolog	VME
Hoskyns	Fixed Penalty Office Contract Staff
¹ All for the Electrical and Mechanical Branch Control Information Systems.
² Territorial Operation Systems.

Volume 130: debated on Wednesday 30 March 1988